Latest exciting news is that George Monbiot, writer, journalist and activist has been commissioned by the Festival to create a 'Festival Address' - a kind of keynote encompassing and building on George's ideas that:
"The novelists who help to define their era are those who break through the screens erected by society to shield itself from uncomfortable truths. Performing this task while remaining readable is fiction's greatest challenge. "
The Festival is delighted to have George participate in the Festival for this Tenth Anniversary Year. Dates for this event to be announced soon! More about George below or visit www.monbiot.com.
George Monbiot has held visiting fellowships or professorships at the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele (politics), Oxford Brookes (planning) and East London (environmental science). He has honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews and the University of Essex and an Honorary Fellowship from Cardiff University. He is the author of the best selling books Heat: how to stop the planet burning; The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain; as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man’s Land. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper.
More Festival news coming soon!
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